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If you are looking for course scale 0 gauge inspiration. Take a look at page 2 of this thread.

Looking forwards to seeing the finished model.

Hi Johnster, Yes you use card to print on. The kit tells you what size card to use for each building. Ok they are not up to Metcalf or Superquick standards. But for just the cost of printing they are damned good.....😁

Hi all, Just found another site for more free 00 card building kits. Something for every one here I think. http://www.wordsworthmodelrailway.co.uk/index.html

Hi all, Acurascale have recently released a series of banana vans. https://www.accurascale.com/collections/sr-banana-van

Hi John. If you look at the top left photo of the terminus there is the electric LNER version of this loco pulling 2 Pullman coaches.

Hi John, Yes we had a great deal of fun planning, building and playing with this layout. Especially when we were trying to run the clockwork engines.

Hi all, I have just come across this company who make card building kits. They also have some free template kits for us to download. I think it should be well worth a look. https://www.kingswaymodels.com/freedownloads

Part 2,

Hi John, This is what I used to have the honour of helping to build and playing with. It belonged to a friend of mine. We had hours of fun with it. Sadly it is now all sold off and gone.

Hi, This should help you with where the fittings go. The picture shows one set fitted and the second set laid out in the order they fit in.

A couple more piccys. The last 3 pictures are locos that started out life as N2s, But became Drummond class 42 0-6-2 and an X class 0-6-4. The last one became a Southern E7 0-6-2 tank engine.. I do have more H/D engines not shown here as I have not taken and photos of them. 2 0-6-0 Diesel shunters, 2 Class 20 diesels and another 2 R1s.

Just been looking at some pictures of some of my Hornby/Dublo engines. So I thought I would share them.

Hi Steamport Southport I understand where you are coming from. It would be easier for some one just buy a newer model. But where's the fun and satisfaction in that.

Hi, There are 3 ready made or kit banana vans I can find. Graham Farish from the 1970s, Current Dapol and the Parkside kit. See pictures. Hope this helps.

Hi all, I had a loft layout for over 20 years without a problem. We put in a Velux window for ventilation and lagged the roof before boarding it in. Yes it did get a bit warm in summer. But not enough to cause any damage. The lagging stopped it getting too cold in winter.

Hi Viken. I concur with The Johnster. The track plan makes no logical sense. To me it just looks like you threw a load of points at the board and decided that's where they go. All layouts no matter what size(Unless you count the tail chasing ones) need a reason to be. A function for where your lines are. I must go back to what I said earlier. In this case less would be more.

I never pre order a model. I just wait until it is in the shops and the likes of TMC, Hattons or Rails of Sheffield have discounted substantially from the RRP.

For the cab steps why do you not just use a plasticine mould made by pressing in the Jinty step and filling it in with resin. Paul the Restorer on his Youtube channel has done this several times to make missing parts for his models.

Do the Americans still use H0 3 rail track. If they do you should be able to use one of their crossings.

How about nicking one from an old Hornby patriot. There is one on Ebay for £5.99 with a buy it now sale.

Hi all, As I have mentioned in an earlier thread I have taken a break from restoring and repairing loco's. Moved on to buying a lot of scrapped wagons and fixing them. I never thought I would get such a feeling of satisfaction with them as I did with the locos. But some of them Just lifted my soul when I finished them. I have fixed up about 40 wagons now. Here are the ones that have given me the greatest satisfaction and why. The first picture is the lot that most of them came in. The circled wagons are the ones I am showing. 1/ This is what looks like a very tall mineral wagon on the left hand side of the picture. Had to scratch build the roof and the end arches of the walls. Also had to repair the damaged chassis. 2/ This was the old Hornby box van with sliding doors at the top of the picture. I had to source a new chassis as for some reason this was on and old Triang chassis. I scratch built new doors for both sides. I think they turned out nicely. 3/ All there was of this wagon was the body with broken side rails. I sorted out a chassis and repaired the under gear on that and repaired the side rails. 4/ Again all there was of this was the body. It originally had a short wheel based chassis. But I wanted it on a slightly longer chassis. Sorted out another damaged chassis from my increasing stock pile. Made running boards and front/rear footplates. I had heard of a shorter wheel chassed brake van similar to the Hornby one and thought why not try and make one. Nothing to loose. 5/ The four wheeled coach was a different matter. The body had been repainted and very nicely painted in green with gold lining. The only problems with it were the chassis was smashed and unrepairable. All the detailing on the ends had been file completely off back to just flat plastic. So I took another 4 wheeled coach I have and used that as a template to rebuild all the detailing. So all the hand rails and steps are now separate and not just moulded on to the body. All the wagons got a full repaints. I just painted the ends of the coach and its new chassis. All the chassis were missing at least one buffer. So they were also repaired. I know that these may not be the most earth shattering repairs and mods. But they have given me immense satisfaction in doing them. After all that is what this hobby is about.

Is that Wesley Pegden with the glasses taking a look at your engine. Be worried if he says it's running a bit rough...........😁

Hi all, If soldering is not your thing. And I admit it is not mine a decent glue is the best way to go. This is the best superglue I have found. It sticks everything to any thing so far for me. including that horrible greasy plastic that you some times get. But I have never tried it on wood so cannot say about brass to wood. https://www.hafixs.co.uk/products/profglue/index.html

Hi, I use Hafix industrial superglue. Not found anything it doesn't stick together yet. https://www.hafixs.co.uk/products/profglue/index.html